They put a ring-like plate around it, with fresh greens on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Ate a Pygmy « Official Harry Harrison News Blog] Reference

A ring-like ornament is used as a decoration for one of the mouldings of the arch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

In this case the adult insect cuts a ring-like furrow around the wood and the portion above dies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924] Reference

The ring-like shape of the atoll is the result of coral reefs building up around a former volcanic island.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where In The Universe Challenge #84 | Universe Today] Reference

Ringworm gets its name from the characteristic ring-like patches that develop on the infected area of the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.: Extreme Hygiene: Infectious Germs Are Bulking Up at the Gym] Reference

The air which enters through the nose and mouth passes into a tube of muscles and ring-like pieces of cartilage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Object Lessons on the Human Body A Transcript of Lessons Given in the Primary Department of School No. 49, New York City] Reference

Within the circular room beyond there was no true floor, but rather a ring-like balcony made of a lusterless black metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]

The ring-like object in the woman's hand, which is so hard to identify when one views the group from the ground, is a wreath.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition] Reference

It is evident from the formulae that in thymine and cytosine a ring-like system of carbon and nitrogen atoms must be assumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albrecht Kossel - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The ring-like muscles of the pylorus relax at intervals to allow the muscles of the stomach to force the partly digested mass into the small intestines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Practical Physiology] Reference

And he knew that there were other clusters, built by other outfits, growing and dividing into widely separated portions of the same great ring-like zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

Again, many leaves are known to originate in the form of a ring-like protrusion from the axis, and from this primary ring originate secondary developments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

This ring-like curtain in the eye, of gray, green, bluish-green, brown, and other colors, is one among the very many remarkable contrivances of the organic world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference

Its ring-like tendrils felt about in the air for a support.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historical Miniatures] Reference

Gollum and the ring-like obsession with Mr Schafer official.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN DS] Reference

Aβ and α-syn form hybrid ring-like structures in an in vitro.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Analysis of numbers of ring-like structures formed after 6 hrs incubation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The ring-like structure of an onion lends itself well to this mode of preparation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

The process requires a complex ritual and a massive ring-like structure to be used as a gate.    From Wordnik.com.  [RPGnet] Reference

In Fig. 15 is shown a rugged region of the moon, containing many ring-like mountains or craters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Heavens] Reference

As the infection becomes worse, the ring-like pattern and red-brown colour become more distinct.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Aβ enhances the formation of α-syn ring-like structures and increases ion conductance alterations.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The inferred ring-like structure obtained for NGC 4151 at the top-left is depicted in the top-right panel.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The superficial type of ringworm sycosis is readily distinguished by the ring-like character of the patches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference

The average number of ring-like structures was analyzed with digitized images using the ImageJ program (NIH).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The ring-like formations are the so-called craters, most of them far larger than anything similar on the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Heavens] Reference

GERD is caused by a defective lower esophageal sphincter, a ring-like muscular valve that surrounds the esophagus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

The eggs are glued in ring-like brownish masses around the smaller twigs, where they may be easily found and destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference

This dimer can serve as the core for the formation of pentameric and hexameric oligomers with a ring-like organization.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

But the most striking features on the moon are those ring-like objects which are scattered over the surface in profusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference

To estimate the number of ring-like structures formed, 10 random fields were analyzed at 50,000× magnification per condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

These ring-like aggregates are more stable compared to those lacking Aβ and might correspond to non-selective cation channels.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

(C, D) Hybrid Aβ / α-syn multimers formed ring-like structures that embedded in the membrane after 350-800 ps of simulation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The bright hair growing upon his sister's head he knew had a reddish tinge, and its silky length terminated in ring-like curls.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Algonquin Maiden A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada] Reference

For a time, this extra nudge can offset the drag force from starlight and the dust can settle into subtle ring-like structures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Universe Today] Reference

Molecular modeling and simulations showed that Aβ binds α-syn monomers, homodimers, and trimers, forming hybrid ring-like pentamers.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The patch spreads in a uniform manner peripherally, is slightly scaly, and tends to clear in the centre, assuming a ring-like appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference